Apiarian

"Were I to be the founder of a new sect,

I would call them Apiarians, and,

after the example of the bee, advise them

to extract the honey of every sect."  

- Thomas Jefferson

"Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye."

~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness."

~George MacDonald (1824-1905)

"The secrets of the world are very marvellous,

but they are not themselves half so wonderful

as the way in which they become known to the world."

~Anthony Trollope (1815-1882)

“Happiness, not in another place but this place...

not for another hour, but this hour.”

~ Walt Whitman

"How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose,

if there were no winter in our year!"

~ Thomas Wentworth

"In seed-time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy."

~ William Blake

"I speak to the broken halves of all our selves

and tell them to embrace, loving the worst in us

equally with the best."

~J. M. Coetzee (b. 1940)

“Be like the sun, for grace and mercy.

Be like the night, to cover others' faults.

Be like running water, for generosity.

Be like death, for rage and anger.

Be like the Earth, for modesty.

Appear as you are. Be as you appear.”

~Rumi

"Great art is more than a transient refreshment.

It is something which adds to the permanent richness

of the soul's self-attainment.

It justifies itself both by its immediate enjoyment,

and also by its discipline of the inmost being.

Its discipline is not distinct from enjoyment but by reason of it.

It transforms the soul into the permanent realization

of values extending beyond its former self."

~Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)